Poe went to the University of Virginia in 1826, where he excelled in his classes. Money was also an issue between Poe and John Allan. Preferring poetry over profits, Poe reportedly wrote poems on the back of some of Allan's business papers.
Edgar and Frances seemed to form a bond, but he had a more difficult relationship with John Allan.īy the age of 13, Poe was a prolific poet, but his literary talents were discouraged by his headmaster and John Allan, who preferred that Poe follow him in the family business. Separated from his brother William and sister Rosalie, Poe went to live with John and Frances Allan, a successful tobacco merchant and his wife, in Richmond, Virginia. His father left the family early in Poe's life, and his mother passed away from tuberculosis when he was only three. Poe never really knew his parents - Elizabeth Arnold Poe, a British actress, and David Poe, Jr., an actor who was born in Baltimore. Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts. Some aspects of Poe’s life, like his literature, is shrouded in mystery, and the lines between fact and fiction have been blurred substantially since his death. Many of Poe’s works, including “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Fall of the House of Usher,” became literary classics. His imaginative storytelling and tales of mystery and horror gave birth to the modern detective story.
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for evocative short stories and poems that captured the imagination and interest of readers around the world.
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